Birthday Milestones and Encore Intentions | LAYC47

All right, everyone out there.

I'm gonna ask for lots of cheering, lots of clapping, lots of woohoos!

To help me celebrate yet another birthday.

By the time you hear this episode, I will be 68 years young, and so

excited for the next stage of my life for more lifting, more climbing,

more growing, more evolving, more transforming, more reinventing.

More of the best life for me!

I'm very happy to share this with you today because I know that there are so

many of you on this same trajectory as I am recognizing that every birthday is

an opportunity to take stock, to assess just how marvelous that we are, how much

we have learned, the tacit knowledge we've accumulated in our lifetime.

The experiences, the opportunities.

Tony Robbins said it.

Bill Gates said it.

Many other famous speakers have said...

That it is true that we usually overestimate how much we can accomplish

in one year, but we probably underestimate how much we will accomplish in a decade.

Now, I'm not gonna go back a whole decade here, rewind that with you, but I do

wanna talk about the milestone and the events that have taken place in the past

three years, and what's coming up next.

My 65th birthday...

That was the milestone that I celebrated publishing my first book, Who am I Now?

Feminine Wisdom, Unmasked and Uncensored, being registered in the Library of

Congress and being on the shelves in the library in my community, and on

Amazon and on Kindle, and that was a story of everything I had learned

in my life up to that point, and it was further supported and enriched by

an anthology collection of 20 other women sharing their feminine wisdom.

That book continues to sell today, and it continues to Lift others as

they Climb through that evolutionary process of figuring out...

Who are we today?

Who are we?

And who are we NOT any longer.

My 66th birthday also revealed a lot more opportunity to evolve and grow.

That was the year that I learned how to be part of the knowledge industry

and create my own online courses and to coach more people around the world

by doing so utilizing technology.

66 was also the year that I became familiar with pandemics again, and you

know, along with the rest of you lived life a little differently while we were

under social isolation restrictions.

But that was the time that I used to, to learn more, to educate myself and

try some new things, including, it was the year that I launched a YouTube

channel with my mastermind partners, and we did a series of incredible

conversations, sharing our wisdom, our experience very candidly, sometimes very.

Surprisingly and other times quite humorously.

And in celebration of that today I'm gonna include a link in the

show notes about a specific episode that we did back in 2020 that talked

about aging, stages and birthdays.

Along with my two mastermind partners, one of us were in three different decades.

We celebrated a 40, a 50th, and a 60th, and then we also celebrated

how to live in our birthday suits.

So if you are curious about that, I will post a link so that you

can watch the YouTube video.

67 was an even more momentous year.

In my 67th year on the planet, I became a podcaster.

Which is why you're hearing me today.

I launched the Lift As You Climb podcast along with the

Lift, As You Climb Movement.

If you haven't yet joined us in the Facebook group, the Lift as you Climb

Movement, I encourage you to do so.

There are some very cool people lifting and climbing in that group.

67 also marked a very big transition period in my life, where I moved

from one country to another.

You'll find out more details about that in, um, the episode

earlier in this podcast...

Irreconcilable Change, and I'll put the link to that in the show notes as well.

I began the journey of divorce.

It was also the year that I took the baton and stepped up to more active

role and to be the Chief Cheerleading Officer, as I'm fond to say, of a

spectacular Facebook group, almost 5,000 women reinventing retirement on their

own terms, called Renegades Reinventing.

And if you think that description applies to you, I encourage you to check us out.

Again, details will be in the show notes so you can find it easily.

And here we are now, beginning my 68th year, I have a lot planned for this year.

I am hard at work now expanding my reach and expanding the value that I add in

the world by adding more online coaching programs, more one-on-one coaching,

and more group coaching programs.

It's also, and you may be among the very first to hear this, the year that I

will launch my second podcast, the Gray Divorce Podcast.., Where I'll talk about

my own experiences, but also involve other people and bring in experts to help

us figure out how to Gray Divorce with No Remorse and to continue our Encore

to the next and best parts of our lives, stages of our lives, after divorce.

In this coming year, I also plan to create an audio version of my book...

Who Am I Now?

Feminine Wisdom, Unmasked and Uncensored, and a workbook to go along with it.

For those of you who like the tactile, the audio, and the visual learning,

it'll be there for everybody.

So thank you!

Thank you for being here with me through these years of growth and

stages, and to be party to and encouragement for my Encores, my

Transformations, and my Reinventions.

Happy Birthday!